Category: Good News
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For May 4th
Riya Mehta: Air-to-rock: This Icelandic facility is turning CO2 into stone In Iceland, the company Carbix is collaborating with Climeworks, another company, to build a site that collects carbon dioxide from the air and turns it into stone underground. This will be effective in reducing climate change. In southwest Iceland, this process has already begun.…
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For April 20th
Riya Mehta: Seville plans to turn its oranges into electricity Spain plans to take its famous Seville oranges and turn them into clean energy. The streets of Seville are home to over 48,000 orange trees and with that, comes a lot of waste in the form of falling fruit. Not only is this a hazard…
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For March 30th
Raeya Arora: More climate commitments made In 2020, more governments and companies committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions in the coming decades. China is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gasses and China announced its intention to be carbon-neutral by the year 2060. Japan, Hungary, Canada, South Africa and South Korea committed to similar goals…
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For March 16th
Neel Oza: Biofase A mexican company called Biofase is focused on limiting the usage of single-use plastics by turning discarded avocado seeds into biodegradable cutlery. Biofase takes seeds that would have otherwise been dumped in a landfill and uses its patented process to make a biopolymer, dubbed “avoplast,” which is the material used for the…
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For March 2nd
Neel Oza: The Ocean Cleanup A group called The Ocean Cleanup is a Netherlands-based non-profit, environmental organization dedicated to the cleaning and removal of plastic from the world’s bodies of water. They are focusing most of their efforts on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP); the largest accumulation of single-use plastic in the world. It…
Recycling Revisited, Inc. 